Saturday the 16th from noon Eastern onward is good. Sunday until 3pm is generally good, I have some things I need to do but if I know when the draft is I can work around it. Weeknights might work but are a little unpredictable.

War Room ChroniclesAn inside look at the Denver Squirrels' preparation for the PFNFBL draft.Benjamin Hochman, The Denver Post

Recently, I was invited to visit the Denver Squirrels practice facility as team executives, coaches and scouts prepared for the upcoming PFNFBL draft. The following is a journal covering what turned out to be quite an interesting day as I got a chance to get an inside look at what goes on behind the scenes of the PFNFBL draft.

8:05 am: I arrive at the Squirrels practice facility and attempt to enter but there appears to be no one in the building. The parking lot contains one lone vehicle, an early eighties era Lincoln Continental parked diagonally and occupying multiple handicap parking spaces.

8:25 am: Squirrels Head Coach, Rufus Henry appears in the lobby of the locked building, wearing no pants and escorting two overweight women from the premises. He is smoking a cigarette.

8:26 am: Coach Henry notices me standing there and asks me to come back later in the afternoon. He turns and walks away, locking the door.

8:47 am: While on the phone with my editor trying to figure out what I should do, I hear a knock on my car window, General Manager BallDon'tLie greets me with a box of powdered donuts.

8:51 am: Sitting in BallDon'tLie's office, he excuses himself to use the restroom. He grabs a copy of LowRider Magazine from his desk as he leaves the room.

9:47 am: BallDon'tLie returns from the restroom with a relived look on is face.

9:48 am: Four additional Squirrels scouting staff members arrive and disappear into a back room of the facility.

9:53 am: The scouts return and immediately devour all of the remaining donuts.

9:57 am: BallDon'tLie assembles his scouting staff in a disheveled looking conference room. There are inappropriate drawings from a previous meeting on a dry-erase board. The words "Lebron James is a penis!" is also written on this board. This is never explained to me.

9:58 am: A heated debate ensues about who is the better game-show host, "Bert Convy or Pat Sajak". There is a great deal of profanity and threats of physical violence during this argument.

10:21 am: BallDon'tLie invites me to come with him to locate Coach Henry. After a thorough search, we find the coach sleeping on the floor of the women's restroom. We are unsuccessful in our attempts to wake coach Henry.

10:39 am: We return to the "war room" to begin evaluating film of possible Squirrels' draft prospects. The Squirrels utilize an old Sony Betamax machine because according to one of the scouts, "VHS is a fad".

12:22 pm: BallDon'tLie states "I had no idea that Demarcus Cousins was a werewolf! It's amazing that he could have kept this a secret when he played for Kentucky".

12:22 pm: I tell BallDon'tLie and the Squirrels' scouts that what we watched on the tap was not Demarcus Cousins. The GM reacts by saying "Well, Demarcus Cousins or not; we need to get a werewolf on our team. Werewolf's are excellent basketball players!"

12:27 pm: We break for lunch and walk across the street to a gentleman's club called "Cheerleaders".

4:49 pm: We leave Cheerleaders and BallDon'tLie calls it a day. He bids farewell to his scouting staff and tells them that they'll get back at it tomorrow. We see Rufus Henry entering the club as we are leaving. He is still not wearing pants.

Different franchises have different methods of evaluating players. It remains to be seen if the Denver Squirrels' system will produce the kind of results that their emerging fan base is looking for.

I'd like to thank the team for granting me this level of access and allowing me to share this experience with readers of the Post.

Todays the day my friends! I'm looking forward to it. How far will D-Ho slip? I've seen him go as low as 15 in some mock drafts! Crazy. That 5,6,7 slot is interesting, with Kobe, Wade, and Curry all grouped real close there, if you ask me. Do you take Curry over Kobe? That would be a hard decision...